Italian Baroque

Question 1

Caravaggio treated both themes with extreme austerity and simplicity. He placed Paul on his
back in a pool of light, just after having been struck from his horse by a divine thunderbolt.

Answer 1

THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL – Michelangelo Merisi
da Caravaggio

Question 2

Compositionally, the painting is organized around a strong
diagonal that begins at the point of the Virgin Mary’s sister
Mary Cleophas’s raised left hand, continues down through Mary
Magdalene’s slumped shoulder and the elbow of Nicodemus, to
finally rest upon the corner of the shroud within which Christ’s

dead body is about to be wrapped.

Answer 2

THE ENTOMBMENT OF CHRIST –Michelangelo Merisi
da Caravaggio

Question 3

He set the subject of Christ
calling Matthew, the tax gatherer, in a dingy modern tax
collector’s office somewhere in a basement of Rome.

Answer 3

CALLING OF MATTHEW - Michelangelo Merisi
da Caravaggio

Question 4

Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, better

known as the

Answer 4

NIGHT WATCH – Rembrandt

Question 5

His Major contributions was the
development of an artificial and unique
technique of handling light and shadow
called the Rembrandt lighting

. Graded
transition from light to dark with
shadows of warm color
.

Answer 5

Rembrandt Van Rijn

Question 6

The school greatest who painted
genius portraits
of the dutch and scenes of genre and religious
subjects
.

Answer 6

Rembrandt

Question 7

is based on an Old Testament tale. In the Book of Daniel, Regent

Belshazzar of Babylon served one thousand nobles at a great feast.

Answer 7

BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST - Rembrandt

Question 8

Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, better

known as the

Answer 8

NIGHT WATCH

Question 9

The “little Dutch master” next
to Rembrandt

Answer 9

Jan
Vermeer

Question 10

His usual subjects focuses on
women at some household
chores

Answer 10

Jan
Vermeer

Question 11

represents a young woman in a dark shallow space,
an intimate setting that draws the viewer’s
attention exclusively on her. She wears a blue and
gold turban, the titular pearl earring, and a gold
jacket with a visible white collar beneath.

Answer 11

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING - Vermeer - italian baroque

Question 12

• which is considered a glorification of the great pontificate of Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family.
• work ranks as one of the masterpieces of baroque painting.
• The ceiling is an illusionistic continuation of the space of the room.

Answer 12

FRESCO IN THE CEILING OF GRAN SALONE OF THE PALAZZO BARBERINI

Question 13

Barley Sugar columns/ columns with twisted shafts

Answer 13

SOLOMONIC COLUMNS

Question 14

The most celebrated
Italian piazza is that
designed by _____ in
front of St. Peter’s
Basilica, Rome. It is 650
feet (198 m) wide, being
bounded on the sides
by fourfold Tuscan
colonnades.

Answer 14

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Question 15

most important figure in early baroque architecture.

Answer 15

CARLO MADERNO

Question 16

Italian architect, whose work prefigured the baroque style of
the 17th century.

Answer 16

CARLO MADERNO

Question 17

His style influenced the baroque
architects Francesco Borromini and
Gianlorenzo Bernini.

Answer 17

CARLO MADERNO

Question 18

He completed the unfinished facade
(1614) of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

Answer 18

CARLO MADERNO

Question 19

one of the most original and important
architects in 17th-century Italy.

Answer 19

FRANCESCO
BORROMINI

Question 20

devoted himself exclusively to architecture,
becoming virtually obsessed with finding new
and unorthodox uses of space.

Answer 20

FRANCESCO
BORROMINI

Question 21

FAÇADE OF SAN CARLO ALLE QUATTRO FONTANE

ORATORY OF SAINT PHILLIP NERI

SANT’IVO ALLA SAPIENZA COURTYARD AND FAÇADE.

Answer 21

BORROMINI

Question 22

a vast octagonal
building with two
domes and a pair
of picturesque bell shaped towers at the back. Dedicated to mary mother of jesus, dome- crown of mary

Answer 22

S. MARIA DELLA SALUTE –BALDASSARE LONGHENA

Question 23

The mother
church of the
Society of jesus, a
roman catholic
religious order
known as the
Jesuits ; its façade
is the “first truly
baroque façade”
introducing the
baroque style of
architecture

Answer 23

CHURCH OF IL GESU – GIACOMO VIGNOLA

Question 24

architectural space painted in illusionistic perspective

Answer 24

Quadratura

Question 25

painting showing an illusionistic view upward into a seeming dome, sky or heaven

Answer 25

Di sotto in su

Question 26

New emphasis on sculptural and painted forms;
shapes of nature, leaves, shells and scrolls enrich
classical forms of earlier Renaissance design

Answer 26

Elements of Baroque Style

Question 27

Modification of basic shapes of walls and
ceilings, with three-dimensional sculptural
decoration, figures, and floral elements

Answer 27

Elements of Baroque Style

Question 28

Painted settings that offered illusionistic
views of space peopled by figures full of
movement and activity

Answer 28

Elements of Baroque Style